Brown and White Vol. 120 no. 24

              Vol. 120 No. 24
Friday, April 29, 2011
‘All the Lehigh News First’
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LIFESTYLE
By KRISTINA PARK and MELISSA COLLINS
Dr. Mark Jacobs and Dr. Dennis DeTurck, two candidates for the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences spoke at Town Hall meetings last week, presenting platforms for why the position is a good fit for each of them.
Jacobs, dean of the Barrett Honors College and a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, addressed the community last Thursday, speaking primarily about the importance and values of the arts and sciences.
“I am in arts and sciences, and I have been all of my life,” he said. “Education is the most important thing to me. When I think those thoughts we all do about what we should be doing in life, it’s really easy for me to justify being in education. How can any­one argue that you shouldn’t be in education? The education in arts and sciences is what attracts me.”
He is also attracted to the ways that the arts and sciences mesh well with a private university and al­low the students and faculty to develop who they really are.
“Arts and sciences are thought to help us identify who we are, where we came from and where we are going,” he said.
DeTurck spoke of several different reasons that the arts and sciences are important to him and should be for the university and community as well.
“For a lot of people, especially classical people, a university is synonymous to its college of arts and sciences,” he said. “The university is the College of Arts and Sciences.”
He also emphasized that the arts and sciences al­low for the generation of ideas, as well as the oppor­tunity to “cover” the uncountable topics that arts and sciences spans.
“The strength of the arts and sciences is simply the power of ideas,” he said. “That is its past, present and future. We’re about big questions, trying to un­derstand ourselves and our relationships with others and the world around us.
“The world is a lot of place and time, so there’s a lot to cover out there,” he said.
Both Jacobs and DeTurck were chosen as part of the final four applicants from more than 70 profes­sionals who applied for the dean position, according to Gary Sasso, dean of the College of Education.
Students were able to give feedback on all four of the dean candidates who spoke at Town Hall meet­ings through yesterday.
After the search committee, which has aided the selection process of the candidates so far, has fin­ished pulling together the comments for each final­ist, Provost Patrick Farrell will be able to choose the next dean of CAS.
Final dean candidates speak to community
By DEBBIE PEARSALL
Do you remember the playground bully? It could have been a boy or girl, but he or she was the first person to make fun of the kid who couldn’t read in your third grade class or the kid whose mom clearly dressed them that morning.
Now, imagine that bully followed you to col­lege and had a website to support their mean streak. Meet CollegeACB.
CollegeACB.com works by allowing users to post anonymously to threads on a discussion board, as well as create new threads to discuss campus happenings in whatever detail desired. It has been known to play host to menacing and crude posts among dialogue for co-eds, such as “Biggest slut on campus” or “Why are all the guys in Fraternity ‘A’ creepy and ugly?” with follow-up responses.
It’s notorious. The “anonymous confession board” website has been the cause of anguish for co-eds nationally since the downfall of predeces­sor JuicyCampus.com, the college gossip website owned by Peter Frank, in 2009.
But now, with new ownership, CollegeACB is pushing for change. Refusing to accept the title of “gossip website,” the site boasts a new mis­sion statement looking to foster positive campus discussion on its pages. Many college students wonder if the efforts to change are plausible and will ultimately give the site a good reputation.
In an effort to promote the procedure of anonymity that the site itself uses, the new chief
See COLLEGE Page 3
Will CollegeACB change its bad reputation?
Gilbert discusses her ‘marriage’ with writing
By ANNAMARIA ANSELMO
“It is better to live your own des­tiny imperfectly than to live an imi­tation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
These are the words extracted from Elizabeth Gilbert in her The New York Times’ Best-Seller “Eat, Pray, Love,” which inspired the Lehigh community, composed of students, faculty, staff and residents of the Lehigh Valley, to attend her lecture this past Thursday in Zoell­ner Arts Center’s Baker Hall.
“Eat, Pray, Love,” Gilbert’s criti­cally acclaimed novel was recently adapted into a feature film starring Julia Roberts and Javier Bardem last summer. The book and film, Gilbert’s memoir, chronicles her divorce from her first husband and her travels through Italy, India and Indonesia.
Gilbert’s appearance and dis­cussion were part of the Notations Lecture series, which aims to “bring literary artists to Lehigh University and the Lehigh Valley,” said Debo­rah Sacarakis, director of program­ming and outreach of Zoellner.
Her writing has “capture[d] the attention and imaginations and, I’m certain, hearts” of everyone in the audience, Sacarakis said.
Gilbert’s international popularity and ability to enthrall readers with her narrative fittingly reflected in ticket sales.
“Once the word was out that Elizabeth Gilbert was coming to speak, tickets went fast,” said Meg Busch, ’11, box office student man­ager at Zoellner. “We were sold to capacity a good week before the performance. Zoellner has a great Notations Series of speakers every year and was very excited to have Elizabeth Gilbert be a part of it.”
Gilbert used humorous anecdotes to tell her story and how she became such a celebrated and successful
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B&W photo by MEAGAN CARTER
Eco representatives honor Earth Day by sifting through McClintic-Marshall Drinker houses trash to see if residents are recycling properly.
Saving the Earth
n With an exchange of ownership, co-eds are left wondering whether the site will begin to foster positive speech.